The Way We Live Now
Karen ChristensenCommunity, democracy, and a search for the good life.
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We all need a Happy Hour
“Why are third places always about alcohol?”
I’ve been asked that many times. Fortunately, it’s easy to answer: third places aren’t about alcohol. Yes, Ray Oldenburg wrote about pubs, taverns, and beer gardens. Yes, the TV Cheers comes...
Can you have a real third place online?
Can you have a real third place online? Karen Christensen tells the story of a day’s online conversations that reinforced her conviction that real life is better, much much better. The day’s events included Google Meets with colleagues in A...
China, India, Hungary, Finland, Ukraine
Yesterday, I read a long email from Ukraine and sent an email to Paris about a Chinese third-place project because my colleague and I had talked about how the idea applies in contemporary China.1 It hit me afresh that interest in third plac...
Tavern Talk: a postscript to the US 250th
I miss arguments at the table. Not tedious family rows or children’s squabbles, but a hour or two of back and forth on some burning issue. I remember two charming historians batting away at the question of collective learning, long after di...
An MOU for "Friendship and Cooperation"
Berkshire Publishing’s first contract, signed at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2006.
We have been hearing a lot about the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the United States and Iran. This talk of MOUs took me back to the days when I...
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Coauthor of The Great Good Place II, expert on third places and green urbanism, CEO of #BerkshirePubGroup, research associate at Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and editor of the Encyclopedia of Community. Nuts about passenger rail.
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